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Matt Brousseau
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Profiles In Eccentricity
“Crazy” Eddie Antar: Insane Price
This week Matt treats the lads to the saga of Crazy Eddie, the sales and advertising icon of New York who pioneered as much in advertising as he innovated inventory and tax scams while battling the jealousy within his own family!
2023-06-22
1h 49
Profiles In Eccentricity
Death Row Baseball: The Wyoming State Penitentiary All-Stars
This week Matt treats the boys to the story of the prison that started a baseball team full of rapists, thieves and murderers - and one forger - to play for the public while the players awaited execution! But was their star player truly guilty of murder?
2023-05-25
1h 36
Profiles In Eccentricity
Another Antarctic Ice Capade: Ernest Shackleton
Matt brings the boys another South Pole dance; this time on a mission to cross the continent! Ernest Shackleton and his crew have lost their ship and spiral out into the ocean on ice flows! Now a small crew have decided to brave a passage of ocean to send for help - who will survive and what will be left of them?
2023-05-18
2h 04
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Doomed Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott
This week Matt tells the harrowing tale of the British race to reach the South Pole against the Norwegian explorers trying to get there first amid brutal weather conditions, betrayal and very poor decisions made beforehand!
2023-05-11
2h 26
Profiles In Eccentricity
Nazi Nicky Crane: Secretive Skinhead
This week Johnboy treats the lads to the story of a bigoted thug whose reputation was so fearsome that nobody dared challenge him when his double life and hypocrisy were exposed! But first, Matt goes mango mad in Cultural Revolution-era China!
2023-04-20
1h 29
Profiles In Eccentricity
Chemicals and Contraptions: Thomas Midgely Jr.
This week Matt treats the lads to the brilliant inventor who was far ahead of his time, inventing freon and leaded gasoline - while suffering horrifying injuries along the way - before his life ends cryptically with yet another invention involved!
2023-04-06
1h 47
Profiles In Eccentricity
Terry Sawchuk: The Iron Wing
This week Matt takes the lads on a tour of the life of a young boy who ignored an arm injury and inadvertently created a motionless wing that would serve as a perfect goalie stick arm as he grew up. Terry Sawchuk would become a hockey legend, but would continue to ignore medical advice to even greater detriment!
2023-03-23
2h 02
Profiles In Eccentricity
Cocaine Bear Revisited!
This week, in preparation for COCAINE BEAR in theaters this Friday, we take a look back at Aaron's early profiles of the real story the film is based on, first in Episode 8 and later at a live show! Plus Matt and John's stories from the live show are included - another of which still has tons of cocaine! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-02-22
59 min
Profiles In Eccentricity
Harold Nathan Braunhut: Monkey Sea, Monkey What?
This week Matt brings us to the bizarre zone of comic book advertising and the strangest mogul of backpage scams like x ray spex, a Jewish man who gravitated to a strange political affiliation and made too much money from his work to be properly called out!
2023-02-09
1h 35
Profiles In Eccentricity
Beau Monde Bohemian: Caresse Crosby
This week Matt regales the boys with the story of Caresse Crosby, the wealthy socialite that invented the bra, published works by legendary artists and writers, married drunk morons and entered into a suicide pact with her sleazy, shell-shocked proto-goth husband!
2023-01-26
2h 00
Profiles In Eccentricity
Pervert Potluck 2: Billy "In The Bowl" Davis, William "Every Conceivable Animal" Buckland, Joe "The Animal" Barboza, John "White Devil" Willis
The boys are back with a Christmas gift from each of us to you! John's got a disabled vagrant murderer from Ireland, Aaron's got a British theologian and archaeologist who ate a king's heart, and Matt and John share two different outsider gangsters from New England.
2022-12-15
1h 44
Profiles In Eccentricity
Sexual Socialite: Eve Babitz
This week Matt brings the boys the story of the original groupie who dealt in sex and drugs while serving as a muse and challenger to artists in the 60s, 70s and 80s, chronicling the experience in veiled fiction to wide acclaim!
2022-11-17
1h 57
Profiles In Eccentricity
Patreon Preview: Your Honor
From the patreon, a peek at some of the shit we do there: the first instance of John's new game, Aaron has some hot new yelp reviews, Matt has things to blame Jazz for, and then we end with Orson Welles' history lessons.
2022-11-03
2h 00
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Four O'Clock Murders: Ervil LeBaron Part 2
This week Matt wraps up the saga of the murderous polygamist church leader whose imprisonment and even death couldn't stop the bloodshed when his progeny get a hold of a list of names and take their father's mission to a chilling crescendo!
2022-10-21
2h 34
Profiles In Eccentricity
Blood Atonement: Ervil LeBaron Part 1
This week Matt weaves us through the early history of Mormonism leading to the creation of the offshoot polygamist church of one man that would use murder to eliminate his rivals, including his own brothers! Plus John and Aaron want to play a game...
2022-10-13
2h 25
Profiles In Eccentricity
Dynasty's End: The Dallas Cowboys Part 2
This week Matt concludes the saga of the notorious lone star football team where at first a change in leadership can't stop the winning machine but all good things must come to an end!
2022-10-07
1h 41
Profiles In Eccentricity
Winning And Sinning: The Dallas Cowboys Part 1
This week Matt shows us how the Dallas Cowboys began as a middling NFL team before a management shake up and some daring and bizarre roster additions led them to take two superbowls in a row!
2022-09-15
1h 35
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Duel: Chaos, Justice or a Means To An End?
This week Matt breaks down the history and absurdity of the tradition of dueling from the nobles and elites of the dawn of the ritual in Europe through the more popular version of the ridiculous act of petty pride in the Old West and highlights some of the most preposterous matchups along the way!
2022-07-28
2h 18
Profiles In Eccentricity
The World's Big Asshole: Alfred Lawson Part 2
This week Matt concludes the saga of the brainstorming pitchman and entrepreneur Alfred Lawson by zeroing in on his final role - that of a cult leader peddling pseudoscience and personal hunches!
2022-06-09
1h 13
Profiles In Eccentricity
The World's Big Asshole: Alfred Lawson Part 1
This week Matt shares with us the story of a man who buys his own bullshit - but is it with good reason? Alfred Lawson was a successful and unsuccessful baseball player, baseball manager, baseball promoter, publisher, aviator and airplane manufacturer - what will he do next? And has he got something or is he just an asshole?
2022-06-03
1h 35
Profiles In Eccentricity
Patreon Preview: Harry Tracy Alfred
This week, a preview of what you might find on our Patreon: Matt brings the story of the Greatest Western Outlaw, some dull yahoo, and John introduces his plan to get Johnny Depp's Veleno guitar.
2022-05-26
1h 27
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Space Cadet: Edgar Mitchell
This week Matt brings us the story of the astronaut who returned from the moon and had an epiphany, began espousing parapsychology, allying himself with Uri Geller and founding an institution exploring the metaphysical.
2022-04-21
2h 25
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Scum Bunch: The 1986 New York Mets Part 2
This week Matt brings us the epic conclusion of the raunchiest team in baseball's rise to the top. The Mets head to the playoffs, a legendary error occurs during the world series' 6th game and Dwight Gooden watches a parade from his dealer's apartment!
2022-03-17
1h 29
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Scum Bunch: The 1986 New York Mets Part 1
This week Matt takes on the team in baseball who were at their best at their very worst. In 1986 a crew of vile rogues is assembled, led by Keith Hernandez and, while being flagrantly debauched, lead the season for all but 10 days. Stay tuned for the conclusion next week!
2022-03-10
1h 35
Profiles In Eccentricity
Castro's Butcher: Herman Marks
This week Matt shares the fascinating saga of the ruddy midwest vagrant who later joined Fidel Castro's guerrilla forces and served in the regime as a famed public executioner before his undoing and mysterious end!
2021-12-16
2h 10
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Obscure Genius of Geoffrey Pyke
This week Matt treats the lads to the story of a man who escaped prison during World War One, designed ice ships for the allies during the Second World War and in between was a real oddball, inventor and journalist!
2021-10-21
1h 41
Profiles In Eccentricity
A Better Story Than The Bible: Oscar Kiss Maerth
This week Matt treats the boys to the alternate history of mankind through the eyes of the author who believes we descended from cannibalistic apes whose brains grew too large for our skulls and set us on a path of de-evolution! Plus Aaron treats us to estranged twins on opposite ends of the second world war!
2021-08-27
2h 18
Profiles In Eccentricity
Ned Buntline: Don't Believe Everything That You Read
This week Matt regales the boys with the story of an upstart prolific writer who crafted stories of heroes and seduced the public and ultimately tried to seize power behind the wall of lies he'd created!
2021-07-29
2h 52
Profiles In Eccentricity
Joseph Knowles: Nature Man
This week Matt treats the boys to the story of a man who braved the wilderness and slayed creatures in order to survive as a publicity stunt...but was he lying to create hype or actually a survivor of the boonies?
2021-06-17
2h 17
Profiles In Eccentricity
Rube Waddell: Baseball's Pitching Savant
This week Matt brings the story of the hard drinking, hard fishing Hall of Fame pitcher, gator rassler, and brick thrower who tormented both teammates and opponents alike. Get the outfielders off the field!
2021-04-16
3h 29
Profiles In Eccentricity
A Raft With Its Own Stamps: Micronations
This week Matt treats the lads to several examples of micronations; small, small, small, countries and the weirdos that start them. Really small countries. Like, smaller than your house. But before that, we get more calls from listeners to the Tiki Adult Theater!
2021-04-02
2h 14
Profiles In Eccentricity
Bears Versus Ideology: The Free Town Project
This week Matt tells the lads about the New England hamlet that was flooded by libertarians seeking political refuge from government until bears showed up!
2021-02-12
2h 57
Profiles In Eccentricity
Elizabeth Van Lew: Civil War Secret Agent
This week Matt treats us to the excellent story of a woman during the civil war who collaborated with a network of slaves, northerners and sympathizers to undermine the confederate forces in her local Virginia. She pretends to be a gator, but she's a beaver the whole time!
2021-01-22
3h 07
Profiles In Eccentricity
Paul English: Willie Nelson's Pimp Drummer
This episode Matt tells us about the surprisingly charming pimp turned drummer who was the enforcer, accountant and band member for the Willie Nelson band!
2020-11-26
1h 44
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Eunuch Who Killed Booth: Boston Corbett
This week Matt tells the boys about the religious fanaticism that led a man to cut out his own testicles before fighting for the Union in the Civil War, killing John Wilkes Booth and disappearing after being imprisoned in an asylum!
2020-10-30
2h 25
Profiles In Eccentricity
Lobster Boy: Grady Stiles Jr.
This week Johnboy regales the lads with the story of the freak show claw daddy known as Lobster Boy! Hear of the murder he committed and his own killing at the hands of the Human Blockhead! Plus Matt talks about satanic dinosaurs!!
2020-09-26
1h 25
Profiles In Eccentricity
Sex Cult: Franz Creffield and The Bride Of Christ Church
This week Matt tells the lads about a well endowed German immigrant and his followers who participated in incestuous orgies and competed to birth the new messiah! Plus, Aaron tells of the Dutch resistance fighter who seduced Nazis to their death!
2020-09-18
2h 20
Profiles In Eccentricity
Patreon Preview: "Spider-Man's Graduation"
Aaron unveils his (WARNING: filthy) Marvel fan fiction. Before that, John drops his favorite scene from Falling Down and Matt gives a history of illegal sodomy in colonial New England. An extra episode every week and deeper dives into the topics of our regular episodes, along with The Chopped Up Jukeboxes: www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2020-09-12
1h 32
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Last Dance: The Poignant Saga of Doc Pomus
This week Matt brings us the story of the polio-sticken blues singer who would create some of the biggest hits of all time and shape popular music while undergoing immense highs and lows in his personal life and crossing paths with a litany of the most famous and bizarre characters of his era. (Correction, the version of "Piney Brown Blues" that Doc heard was probably the 1940 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYRA5f3kQQ) Sources: "Lonely Avenue" by Alex Halberstadt "AKA Doc Pomus" by Peter Miller and William Hechter
2020-08-07
2h 21
Profiles In Eccentricity
Nero: Depraved, Decadent, Despised
This week Johnboy takes on the reviled Roman ruler Nero! The fire and fury, the incest and intrigue, the extravagance and excess of the madman's reign are all here! Plus Matt shows us the film "Diplomat Tricked In Bathroom!"
2020-07-10
2h 09
Profiles In Eccentricity
Forest Joe And The Runaway Slave Guerrilla Campaign
This week Matt tells of the rebel maroons in the early 1820s who fled to the swamps and remote countryside to wage war and free slaves from plantation owners. Before that, Johnboy tells of the legendary regiment in ancient Greece composed entirely of gay couples.
2020-06-19
1h 26
Profiles In Eccentricity
Tycho Brahe: Advanced Astronomer's Bladder Burst
This week Matt opens the episode up with news on a pornographer accused of manslaughter by psychedelics, John tells of a mental disorder where people believe that they are dead and rotting, and Aaron tells the story of the astronomer who vastly improved the map of the heavens, had a pet elk, his own island, and a dwarf jester who predicted the future! Get some!
2020-06-05
1h 37
Profiles In Eccentricity
Bold, Bawdy Babe Helen Worley Cromwell
This episode Matt treats us to the saga of the self-made single mother who used her cunning. wits, charm and sexuality to bring her to massive financial success while running brothels and hanging out with gangsters and bank robbers. Matt makes Aaron lose it and Aaron makes John lose it.
2020-05-21
2h 49
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Eccentric Media 7: Eat My A**, Fratboy
Heads up: Matt almost throws up this time, so it's pretty gross! Any clips? Any clips? Eccentric Media returns with public access TV prank calls, anti-drug PSAs, and of course the scariest, weirdest, dumbest porn to ever come screaming out of your nightmares!
2020-05-15
1h 36
Profiles In Eccentricity
Patreon Preview: North American Daredevils
An extra episode this week, for all, from the vault: Matt brings the story of Canadian Ken Carter, focus of "The Devil At Your Heels." Ken offhandedly mentions the death of Lucky Teeter, the original American stunt driver, so Matt tells his tale as well.
2020-04-20
1h 18
Profiles In Eccentricity
Franz Kafka: Neurotic Maniac
This week Matt treats the boys to the life of the famously strange author of The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka. Despondent in relationships and acutely tormented by his father, Kafka is an overly neurotic figure awaiting judgment.
2020-04-16
2h 22
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Patreon Preview: Destroying NYC
In this episode from the Patreon vault: Matt runs down a list of how New York City has been destroyed through popular fiction, but then also some moments in popular non-fiction. Very popular stuff. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, laughable disasters, they're all there. Patreon.com/ProfilesInEccentricity $1 per month gets you an old patreon episode every weekday during quarantine and ad-free regular episodes. $5 per month gets you ALL patreon episodes, including new patreon episodes every weekend, and ad-free regulars. Plus, we have merch and we'll be tossing up extra dumb shit every...
2020-04-06
1h 31
Profiles In Eccentricity
Patreon Preview: The Year Of The Spies and Filthy Civil War Letters
An old patreon episode for some extra listening this week. Great friend Laura Crawford joins to tell us about The Year Of The Spies. Matt brings some filthy Civil War letters for the whole gang to read. WARNING: Very Explicit. Patreon.com/ProfilesInEccentricity $1 per month gets you an old patreon episode every weekday during quarantine and ad-free regular episodes. $5 per month gets you ALL patreon episodes, including new patreon episodes every weekend, and ad-free regulars. Plus, we have merch and we'll be tossing up extra dumb shit every week.
2020-03-30
1h 14
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Earth Is Concave: The Koreshan Unity Cult
This episode Matt shares the tale of the cult that believed the world was round, but inside out! Before that, Aaron shares the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who popularized washing your fucking hands!!
2020-03-27
1h 54
Profiles In Eccentricity
Freaks and Geeks: Living Skeletons and Eating Machines
This week Matt treats the boys to a gallery of geeks, humans exhibited for their ability to eat anything, and the freaks known as living skeletons. Plus, Aaron adds more unkillable soldier tales!
2020-03-12
1h 21
Profiles In Eccentricity
Snakes, Gibberish, Abduction: Aimee Semple McPherson
This week Matt treats the boys to the story of the pioneering preacher woman who became a massively influential religious leader in early Los Angeles before she kidnapped herself, dude.
2020-02-05
2h 00
Profiles In Eccentricity
Patreon Preview: Bad Sex and MUFF
We're off this week, so here's a preview of our patreon: In this chill one, John has a definitional porn title, Matt brings terrible writing, and Aaron closes us out with MUFF (Marvel Universe Fan Fiction). Find more episodes at https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2020-01-30
1h 32
Profiles In Eccentricity
Boozing and Boxing: Jimmy "Slats" Slattery
This week Matt treats us to the life of an early 20th century boxer and booze hound from Buffalo, New York. Jimmy goes from fighting in Madison Square Garden, throwing money from his car window, blowing through toll booths, and fighting guys like Young Stribling and Kid Numbers to living on the streets of the city that worshiped him.
2020-01-08
2h 15
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“I Have Lived Many Lives” Stanley Clifford Weyman
This week John tells of the early 20th century con man and impersonator Stanley Weyman, who mainly used his false identities not for money, but sheer experience. Then Matt shares the story of a strange miser with a fondness for silver dollars! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-12-11
1h 01
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Patreon Preview: JSG Boggs
On our Patreon we also do extra profiles. In this one Matt drops the tale of Boggs, the man who drew money to barter with. Hear a possible history of money and how one artist's contemporary recreation redefined contemporary definition. Get an extra episode every week: https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2019-11-27
1h 51
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Chinese Pirate Empress: Ching Shih
This week Aaron regales the boys with the epic tale of the Chinese woman who rose from prostitution to the illicit control of the Eastern seas with a massive fleet of men and vessels at her whim. But first, Matt treats us to the absurdly sad and stupid saga of the Ketchum brothers, the doomed train robbers who idolized Jesse James.
2019-11-21
1h 23
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Such Is Fame: Sam Patch
Do you like throwing bear cubs over waterfalls? Leaping into Niagara Falls? Perhaps becoming a folk hero suits you. This week Matt reveals the story of a man who jumped off of tall things to entertain in the 1800s.
2019-10-16
2h 19
Profiles In Eccentricity
Patreon Preview: Ooze It Or Gooze It
A preview of our patreon page and another of the many different types of episodes available. Matt drops a clip of a guy trolling Headline News. Aaron plays a recruitment in G by R. Kelly. John tells a turd sandwich tale. Matt reveals the Ig Noble Prize winners. It's a very, very stupid episode. https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2019-10-10
1h 53
Profiles In Eccentricity
Fecal Matter: Brown And Out In Paris And London
This week Matt brings the rich history of shit in the streets of 1800s London and Paris, plus John tells the tale of Lord Timothy Dexter, the repeated accidental millionaire moron.
2019-09-11
1h 49
Profiles In Eccentricity
Patreon Preview: Matt Loves The Show Connections 2
Matt's out of town, so this week we give you a preview of our Patreon page: Matt brings another edition of breaking down Connections, the show that shows how one historical invention leads to the next. Aaron and John are morons that draw their own nonsensical nor factual connections. Matt really gifted us with this one. Operation Paper Clip, Pulp Fiction, Lou Ferigno, Napoleon, the gang's all here. Try It Out: https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2019-09-04
1h 17
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The Battle Of North Hollywood
This episode John gets all amped up about the armed and armored bank robbers and the shootout with law enforcement that would lead to police carrying semi-automatic weapons. Plus Matt unveils the furniture King Edward VII had made for sex after he let himself go and his body became disgusting.
2019-08-28
1h 18
Profiles In Eccentricity
America’s First And Dumbest Sport: Pedestrianism Part 2
This week Matt concludes the history of watching people walk as a sporting event, entertainment’s equivalent of eating Corn Flakes to avoid masturbating. We see gender and color barriers get shattered in the sport and old heroes fall and resurrected. John freaks out for a minute.
2019-08-07
1h 32
Profiles In Eccentricity
America's First And Dumbest Sport: Pedestrianism Part 1
This week, Matt takes us to the 1800's and shows us the sport of Pedestrianism, where as many as 80,000 people would crowd around to see men and women walk hundreds of miles around a roller rink.
2019-07-31
1h 39
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Margaret Howe Lovatt: Teaching Dolphins English Through Handjobs
This episode Aaron kicks off with a childhood-era pee-themed clip, Matt follows with a news story about a man with a nine day erection, and John dives into the story of a woman that jerked off dolphins while attempting to teach then to speak in a 1960’s NASA-funded experiment! It’s the dumbest episode yet!
2019-06-12
1h 29
Profiles In Eccentricity
Humans With Goat Testicles: John R. Brinkley Part One
This episode Matt kicks off another two part Profile with the story of faux doctor swindler John R. Brinkley, who convinced early 20th century cucks that the answer to their impotence was goat balls placed within their own balls surgically.
2019-05-29
1h 42
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Patreon Preview: Aaron Explains It All - The Terminator
This week a preview of a new series on the Profiles Patreon: Aaron breaks down everything about one of his favorite movies, "The Terminator," from Cameron's concept through Arnold's execution. Also, Matt has something really gross. Check out our Patreon for more Aaron Explains and other irregular Profiles episodes. www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2019-05-22
49 min
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Pervert Potluck: 3 Strange Tales
This week on Profiles each lad once again brings a wee bit for a 3 way love fest! Aaron tells of a 19th century prostitute who used steak creatively. John meditates on cosmonaut tragedy and sacrifice and Matt brings us to the island that cocaine changed dramatically!
2019-05-15
1h 24
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Ed Leedskalnin: The Creep Of Coral Castle
This episode Matt lights the fire by exposing John and Aaron to a new foot fetish sex toy. Then John shares some rumors about the science of swallowing before getting into the story of the little Latvian man who inexplicably built an open air limestone castle, moving millions of pounds alone at night in tribute to a woman who wanted nothing to do with the guy.
2019-05-01
1h 21
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Mark “Chopper” Read: Eating A Pack Of Lit Cigarettes and Cutting Off Your Ears
This episode Matt delves into the hilarious and savage criminal underworld inhabited by infamous criminal “Chopper” Read. Get yourself a nice bottle of Ouzo and get ready to lose a few feet of intestine.
2019-04-24
1h 22
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Julie d’Aubigny, Dog Pills and Cat Calls, Phantom Bands Of The 60’s
This episode gets way out of hand. Matt brings the epic story of a French swordswoman’s journey through European aristocracy and illegal duels with dudes. Aaron brings the online incel community’s belief that women are turning to dogs for sex and John brings the saga of the promotion that had fake versions of the Zombies, Animals, and Archies on tour.
2019-04-04
1h 33
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Victoria Woodhull Part Two
This week Matt caps off the saga of the spirit-seeing-prostitute-free-love-advocate-turned-first-female-presidential-candidate Victoria Woodhull! See if Buck, Utica, and the whole rest of the gang don’t turn up for some trouble in this epic conclusion to an incredible life.
2019-03-06
1h 39
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Victoria Woodhull Part One
This week Matt sets the table for the story of Victoria Woodhull, a tale of the ascendant American woman amid the insanity of the Civil War, babies so dumb they were toothless alleged telepathic and prophetic visions, religious and sexual awakening, chemical dependency, spiritual scams, abusive, drunk, thieving husbands and dads, and a society that treasured the female uneducated.
2019-02-27
1h 40
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The Pisstory Of The World Part #1
This week Aaron takes us through part one of a history of number one! Find out why Roman launderers using pee became so wealthy that the government instituted a piss tax! Plus, Matt explores a Beach Boys song writing eccentricity that sends John and Aaron into an interdimensional k-hole.
2019-02-13
1h 33
Profiles In Eccentricity
Michael Malloy: Rasputin Of The Bronx
This episode John shares the tale of the man who would not die, unwittingly surviving as many as five separate attempts on his life by a collective of five of his friends. Matt tells the story of a man who weaned himself off of a self love practice involving nutting super hard and often. Plus, Aaron tells of the meth fueled couple that threw a death and sex "parde" ending in one fatality! This episode brought to you by Claritin and Glass, in theaters now.
2019-02-06
53 min
Profiles In Eccentricity
Maurice Vidal Portman: Cargo Cults and Hermit Tribes
This week Matt takes on the reclusive tribe that recently killed a Christian missionary and the British colonialist that tried to tame them a century ago. Also, John highlights the “cargo cults” of the Pacific islands that sprang up in the wake of WWII. Sponsored by Coconut Beats by Dre!
2019-01-31
1h 15
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The Marquis de Sade: Pain, Pleasure, Perversion
Aaron Pita, in his most challenging profile yet, takes on the original hypervert: The Marquis! Hear Matt and John squirm though the descriptions of the French psycho's real and imagined depictions of depravity and Aaron's careful comparison to modern taboo literature.
2019-01-17
1h 12
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Hetty Green: The Miserly Mother and Her Spendthrift Son
Matt brings the story of the Green family, starting with the matriarch, the Witch Of Wall Street, an incouragable, miserable woman, who made millions of dollars and zero friends and ending with the story of her son, The Colonel, who spent as much as he could on everything he could, including one grand mamillian phallus.
2019-01-09
1h 04
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Eccentric Media 3: Gay Porn Concussion
Matt, John, and Aaron bring out another trove of offbeat songs, internet oddities, movie clips, and - of course - insane porno to pore over and get stupid with.
2018-12-19
1h 12
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Muscle Measuring Maniac
This episode John shares the story of England’s Purple Aki, a bizarre profile of a fitness enthusiast whose compulsion to squeeze young men’s muscles led him to being labelled as a sex offender, serving time in prison, and his conviction for being involved in a young man’s death. Plus, Matt serves up harrowing early talking dolls.
2018-11-14
1h 10
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Anne Lister: Aristocrat Lesbian
This episode Matt shares the tale of high society sapphic socialite Anne Lister, the snobby Englishwoman who turned her nose up at lower class clams. Plus, John dishes on his favorite North Korean execution and South Korean Fan Death superstitions.
2018-11-07
1h 03
Profiles In Eccentricity
Woody Guthrie, Part 2
Matt concludes the saga of folk singer and entertainer Woody Guthrie with his exploits through the second world war, veering between fame and obscurity, multiple evils from his past returning to haunt him, all concluding in the most emblematic and poignant, beautiful tale of highs and heartbreak in America.
2018-10-17
1h 30
Profiles In Eccentricity
Woody Guthrie, Part 1
Matt returns from the woods to drop the first half of the tale of folk singer and authentic Okie entertainer Woody Guthrie and it’s filled with tragedy, Americana, carousing, shitty breakfasts, Communism, Facism, and a girl burnt so bad she froze to death… all played out against the backdrop of American history.
2018-10-10
1h 34
Profiles In Eccentricity
Blowjobs And The Blues
This episode John shares the story of Superhead, the hip hop music video star who became famous for her oral skills and later shook up the industry by telling her tell-all story. Also, Matt shares some shockingly pervy songs from the dirty 1930's.
2018-09-13
1h 15
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Creatures In The Courtroom, Bears At Battle
This episode Matt drops the shockingly insane history of humans putting animals and insects on trial and John talks about a WWII hero that also happens to be a bear!
2018-09-05
1h 29
Profiles In Eccentricity
The Porno Kamikaze Killer: Not Your Air Bud
This week John giddily tells the story of an underground right wing Japanese activist who starred in porn filmes and attempted to assassinate a Yakuza boss in a kamikaze plane attack! Matt gives the bow wow bio of a famous lofty pup!
2018-08-29
1h 03
Profiles In Eccentricity
Yukio Mishima: Japanese Homosexual Author Tries To Overthrow Government And Be Ripped
This episode Matt tells our first listener-suggested subject about Yukio Mishima, a nationally prized Japanese novelist and descendant of a samurai dynasty, who, after the second world war, tried to take Japan to the far right, overthrow the government, and loved figuratively shredded dudes getting literally shredded by arrows.
2018-08-15
1h 26
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The Merciless Onslaught Of Mildred Burke
Matt hits us with the inspiriational tale of Mildred Burke, a woman who trailblazed for female wrestlers and defeated all challengers in REAL and staged fights whie simultaneously enduring the abuse of her lowlife manager!
2018-08-01
1h 02
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3 Way Weirdo Orgy: Fads, Acid Origins, Positive Pedophilia
The Boys run a train on this episode with a 3-way of mini weirdses! First Aaron gives us some background on Alfred Hubbard, the "Johnny Appleseed of LSD," then John gives poses a question about straight edge pedophiles in the hardcore punk scene, before Matt closes us out with bizarre fads through time! Have yourself a nice piss and try it out! Support the show.
2018-07-11
1h 18
Profiles In Eccentricity
Blowcaine Baseball
This week Matt delivers a history of chopped up baseball with the saga of the Pittsburgh Pirates 80s coke addiction!!
2018-06-27
1h 22
Profiles In Eccentricity
Catalina de Erauso: Cross-dressed Nun On The Run Maniac
Matt delivers a maniacal portrait of a woman who left the Catholic church in Spain in the 16th century only to become a marauding menace to colonial South America, all while dressed as a man. She escapes death, incredibly meets family members a world away, and achieves glory and worldwide fame before death! Holy shit!
2018-05-23
1h 14
Profiles In Eccentricity
Sophie Scholl: Nazi Resistance Leader
John tells the story of a 21 year old woman that fought Nazis in Germany at the height of the Second World War. Plus! Matt gives a history of piss in music!
2018-04-25
1h 16
Profiles In Eccentricity
Malcolm McLaren and The Pedophilic Post-Punk Prank
John weaves a tale of Sex Pistols manager, artist, impresario and provocateur Malcolm McLaren and his loftiest aspirations to destroy pop music with a prank centered around the fetishization of children! Matt shares a funny porn clip! We announce the Patreon!
2018-04-18
1h 09
Profiles In Eccentricity
Profiles In Eccentricity Live!
This episode live at the Hollywood Hotel has Matt delving into John Lennon and Harry Nilsson getting super chopped and bombed in L.A., Aaron reveals more about the dealers behind the Pablo Escobear fiasco, and John tells of the ongoing saga of the ex-con who posed as a genius to sell tons of nut to a sperm bank!! The gang's all here! Try it out!
2018-04-11
53 min
Profiles In Eccentricity
One Of Psychedelia's Brightest Lights: Skip Spence
This episode has Matt drop the tale of obscure musician, member of Jefferson Airplane and avid psychedelic drug abuser Alexander Skip Spence!
2018-04-04
1h 11
Profiles In Eccentricity
Satchel Paige: Second Class Immortal
Matt drops the beautiful, poignant profile of a legend of integration era baseball with no shortage of witty quotes! Plus, John finds out James Joyce loves girl's farts. Yikes.
2018-03-07
1h 17
Profiles In Eccentricity
Trash, Cheese, Porn
Guest Cindy Aravena talks about a trash kingpin and the bizarre San Fernando Valley theme park the man built on his garbage empire! Matt talks about gigantic hunks of cheese made for early US presidents and it's nasty! John tells Aaron about top porn searches by country for Aaron's birthday!
2018-02-28
1h 08
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The Isolation and Innovation of Music Producer Joe Meek
This week Matt tells the lads of the true criminal whose crime created the martyrdom of a folk singer Joe Hill and John tells the tale of producer Joe Meek, the man who hated the Beatles demo, destroyed the wall of sound recording method and shot his landlady with a shotgun!
2018-02-21
58 min
Profiles In Eccentricity
Pervert Popes: Vatican Orgies and Papal Corpse Court
Matt drops his first profile; a pope whose exhumed corpse was put on trial and Aaron discusses orgies in the Vatican with prostitutes crawling on the floor for chestnuts and other fellas that would win prizes for chasing their own "nut."
2018-01-31
1h 01
Profiles In Eccentricity
High Gravity BeerPiss and Eccentric Media
Matt, Aaron, and John discuss strictly bizarre media including highly questionable TV interviews, staggering classified ads, bogus urban legends, Ramones radio ads for Steel Reserve beer, scientific books with dark humor and even some weird crap from our own podcast! Pissclaimer: Lots of pee talk.
2018-01-17
1h 03
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Porno Samurai Killer
This episode explores themes of testicular smithereening as Aaron tells John and Matt of instances of mass hysteria and John replies with a tale of a low level porn creep that committed heinous crimes against his fellow mopes. Matt makes John lose it real bad.
2018-01-04
58 min